Windows Firewall – Enable ‘Ping’ / ICMP Echo Reply

Problem

By default all modern distributions of Windows come with their client firewall enabled. Which is a good thing, most corporate networks simply disable it using the rationale that they have a corporate firewall and security software etc. Again thats fine, but what if you want to leave it on, and still be able to ping that host to see if its alive.

Solution

The firewall exception is already written for you, you just have to enable it.